In my opinion:
For "The Lord God made all things bright and beautiful", it is not directly
the things that are bright and beautiful, but rather the way god made them;
"all things birth and beautiful" is not really a group as it cannot be
replaced by "The Lord God made them" but must rather be replaced by "The
Lord God made them bright and beautiful". What did he make? All things.
(notice: it is not "all things bright and beautiful). How did he make them?
Bright and beautiful.
VS
For "The Lord God made all bright and beautiful things", here it is the
things that are bright and beautiful, and all of these things, God made;
here it can be replaced by "The Lord God made them" which shows that "bright
and beautiful" are adjectives for "things" whereas in the previous sentence
it wasn't. What did he make? All bright and beautiful things.
Similarly:
To make great things: to make things that are great: here the adjective is
attached to the noun "things" directly because it is used to describe how
the things are and not how one makes them; it can be replaced by "To make
them"
To make things great: this imply "to make things become great", so it's not
directly the things that are great, but rather the way they become; it can
be replaced by "to make them great".
However, English is not my mother tongue, so I might be wrong. What do you
think?
-Mat
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Objet : Re: A Two-Word dictionary
By the way, do you have the Swadesh list for you conlangs?
And are there Swadesh lists for most proto-languages*?
I.e. Swadesh lists for proto-IE, proto-AA, proto-Bantu, proto-Austronesian,
etc.
* : or would it be proto-(language-family)
Até mais!
Leonardo
2012/11/20 Leonardo Castro <[log in to unmask]>:
> 2012/11/20 Adam Walker <[log in to unmask]>:
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Leonardo Castro
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>> "The Lord God made all things bright and beautiful,
>>> The Lord God made all creatures, the great and the small ones,
>>> The Lord God made all things wise and wonderful"
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>
>> That still leaves the inversion. One would *expect* all bright ans
>> wonderful things, the great and the small creatures (or maybe the great
>> creatures and the small), wise and wonderful things.
>
> But isn't the natural arguments of the verb "to make" like this:
> {subject} {make} {something} {the way the thing is made} ?
>
> E.g.
>
> "Make somebody happy"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN0yy3iokJ4
>
> "20 sure-fire tipos to make your child fat"
> http://www.saveourskills.com/20-surefire-tips-child-fat